Psychic

their loved one’s passing. Confronted with irreparable anger, they chose music to express how they were feeling: one of the most dramatic effects of music's power is the induction of trance states: trance involves both motor and gross emotional, psychic and autonomic effects, culminating in profoundly altered states of consciousness. (Olteteanu) Along with inducing a tranquil state, music has an eery way of presenting intense symbolic power (Olteteanu). When the time came for revolt, music…

It is well known that Deleuze had a negative opinion about comparative philosophy. In his eyes, comparative philosophy represented a certain type of ressentiment and a perverse satisfaction in exposing the contradictions of the other thinker; his method was monographic. 1 Adorno, on the other hand, was opposed to a notion of a Lebensphilosophie in general, holding that any attempt to ground philosophy on a notion of lived experience was nothing but blind self-assertion.2 Undermining the spirit…

and yet transcend spiritually. Through interaction with the Snake spirit, I am learning to rediscover a deep connection to the nature around me. The snake is sinuous; enjoyment of life and survival requires flexible responses to environmental and psychic events. The purpose of life is surely transformation; this process may involve hard work and discomfort. To shed ones psychological skin is challenging and painful, but it is a necessary task to overcome feelings of alienation from nature and…

The Exam Dream was an interesting and insightful read. It delves into the insecurities that all of us even those who have made it to incredible levels in their professional careers have. The worry that you are not good enough or not prepared enough for the tasks one has undertaken. I think all of us have had the exam dream in one form or another not just about school but like Benjamin B. Dunlap, who according to the essay never doubted his scholastic abilities but had major doubts about other…

and various other qualities, he eventually becomes leader of the Watership Down warren. Fiver, on the other hand, is a follower. He dislikes ordering others around, but he will speak his mind about matters he has a ‘feeling’ about.He is prone to psychic trances and visions and he will, occasionally, become so lost in them that he has no control over what he says and does. Throughout the book the rabbits are saved time and time again by these strange visions and feelings. But Fiver is not the…

According to Klein, “infants are constantly engaging in basic conflict between the life and death instinct, which is between the good and the bad, love and hate, and creativity and destruction” (Alvarez et al, 1998). Infants naturally prefer gratifying sensations over frustrating ones as the ego shifts towards integration and away from disintegration. Klein introduced some new conceptual statements from her object relations theory in contrast to Freud’s. Klein organize the good and bad feelings…

building blocks of myths because they help us put in contact with the collective unconsciousness where our wisdom is kept. Jung is not only interested in the archetypes of social function but also in “individuation” which is the power of an individual psychic healing, which the myth attaches to the conscious mind with the depth of the human soul living in the collective…

Dream a Little Dream “Sigmund Freud believed that nothing you do occurs by chance; every action and thought is motivated by your unconscious at some level. In order to live in a civilized society, you have a tendency to hold back our urges and repress our impulses” (Dream Moods). All throughout the novel, Raskolnikov’s encounters a series of dreams that are heavily demonstrated by the Psychoanalytic Theory. In this theory, Freud constructs three main parts that include the id, ego, and superego…

Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, features a hybrid cast between the natural and the supernatural. The witches, who were present from the opening scene, give Macbeth three prophecies that spark his ambition and set into motion the key events of the tragedy. As the play progresses it uses the witches to express themes of fate and responsibility, and the consequences of ambition of people with power. Towards the end of the play it is more evident that the witches’ “black magic has contaminated the most…

Angel Burn, one of the three fantasy books of the Angel Series written by L.A. Weatherly. This novel takes place in several different states of the United States. Upon reading the prologue, it gives me some insight about Alex, a 17 year old teen who works as an Angel Killer. He has been doing this for a while ever since he was little and he has no hesitation for completing his assignment until he met someone who was suppose to be his sworn enemy, but things went completely different upon putting…